This is a hard question to answer I havent found anyone yet that could help me but Ill try again.

Lets say The brand Plymouth was a single owned company and they made cars for a few years and quit. If the creator/ owner of Plymouth was to die and there was no one left in the family of the plymouth's to own the name does that become legal for anyone to use if they were to design a car and wanted the company name to be plymouth.

where would I go to find this out? any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Your thinking way too deep. Just be glad you have your Road Runner and don't look too much back or forward. Too much forward brings you to a 1976 Plymouth Road Runner F-body.

 

Lets say that same guy owned a car, a house and also had a large bank account, would they also be up fore grabs to the first person that asked for them? No, they become part of the estate and are sold off to pay down any open debts, After all debt is gone the remainder would be split up according to the will (if any) between survivors or beneficiaries. If none exist, all remaining property is liquidated and proceeds likely become property of the government. Try researching death without beneficiaries etc.

 

well I would be happy with a car but I dont have my cars any more Cant figure out how to get that off my name. I am a designer I have had somthing in the works for a few years and id like to run with my design. it could be a make or brake. nothing wrong with a 76 its a mopar

 

YEAH! Just like the 1984 Dodge Caravan. It's still a Mopar!

 

Nope nothing wrong with my friend's 76 Roadrunner..I was just trying to boggle his mind some more.

 

Sweet looking car there bremereric , and that's not a car I'd generally even notice! Keep it up

 

A name brand often has nothing to do with the original family name, and has nothing to do with death wills and trusts.

The name will have been copyrighted by the corporationg owned by the family or whoever owned it, so unless the entire corporate ownership was wiped out, SOMEBODY probably still owns the name

A good example is Heathkit. Some moron has locked up the copyright to Heathkit, and many Heathkit manuals that used to be on the www free for download had to be removed. Worst of all the guy who has the name locked up does not have the material readily available for sale.

There are lots of examples in the corporate world, where someone has bought the rights to a "dead" brand name.

 

Here's a wikipeadia link that says they went defunct June 29, 2001 but I would bet someone would have a patent on that name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_(automobile)

 

I'm sure the copyright on that name is still locked in the Chrysler vault!

 

its not a mopar name im after afraid to say but ill keep looking until i find what im looking for